. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. have to do is to keep our minds andbodies normal by a natural way of living; Nature can betrusted to carry on her own processes. Regular and suf-ficient exercise in the open air maintains the efficiency ofthose processes. Normal appetite is the instinct whichselects needful food and limits the amount is the result, as well as a cause, of lack ofh
. Dancing with Helen Moller; her own statement of her philosophy and practice and teaching formed upon the classic Greek model, and adapted to meet the aesthetic and hygienic needs of to-day, with forty-three full page art plates;. have to do is to keep our minds andbodies normal by a natural way of living; Nature can betrusted to carry on her own processes. Regular and suf-ficient exercise in the open air maintains the efficiency ofthose processes. Normal appetite is the instinct whichselects needful food and limits the amount is the result, as well as a cause, of lack ofhealth. With natural living, needful sleep and bathingand clothing are secured instinctively. Rational exer-cise simply and agreeably solves the whole problem ofhealth. Of all systems of health-giving exercise, dancingas it ought to be is, from every viewpoint, the most de-sirable. We have endeavored to show that this meansdancing developed from the Greek model. It is signifi-cant that the draperies of most of the sculptured Greekdancers seem blown by the wind. We have many rea- Eighty-seven Reacting to the breath of Spring—the most compelling of aU impulses todance, and provocative of the most joyous physical Our Contribution to Health sons for believing that dancing in its classic purity wasnearly always in that temple roofed by the blue sky andfloored by the green earth, decorated with living streamsand shady groves. Here the first attribute of healthwas assured—serenity of mind. The Greek passion forthe beauty of symmetry eliminated all forms of exercisecalculated to develop one part of the body at the expenseof the others. They adored strength, but abhorredmuscle in disproportion. Strength with grace was theirideal, and this they gained with the greatest certaintythrough the rhythmical movements of their dance. In our revival of dancing in its purest form we findall these theories amply borne out. Although we havenot, at least in the same degree, the serene
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